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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
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PROUST Marcel (1871-1922).
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [April or May 1912], to Jean-Louis VAudoyer| 7 pages in8.
Long and interesting letter about Vaudoyer's poems and the publication of À la recherche du temps perdu.
Vaudoyer sent him his collection Hommage à Théophile Gautier and Proust found these verses delicious: "Gautier's somnolence and the inspiration that the Muses of decoration pour into him may be the thing that seemed to me of the rarest quality. However, the Café de Venise is quite remarkable too, and as for the little poem on the Voyage en Espagne, that form which is so essentially of that time and which gives the taste something equivalent to a sour flavour by the perpetual impression that the lines do not rhyme (which one has so often with Musset), it is perhaps what I prefer"... He regrets, however, the absence of the Baron de Sigognac, the hero of Capitaine Fracasse, "the work of Gautier that I prefer". He then asks him for advice on the publication of À la recherche du temps perdu: "My novel (?) will consist of about two volumes of [650 crossed out] 700 pages each. Perhaps the second will only be 600, but I cannot stop the first at just half.
Do you think that a work in 2 volumes is executable by Fasquelle or others. Or should we put 2 titles. A general title and below I and a 1st title for the 1st volume, and another title for the second volume (like L'Orme du mail, l'Anneau d'Améthyste) or even five volumes of 300 pages one per part. Now, you who are so expert in beautiful printing, and without seeking beauty at all for this book, but the possibility that it be read without fatigue, is the clarity of the printing due to the fact that there are few letters in each line and few lines in each page?
Thus the Double Maîtresse (Mercure) is very easy to read, Salammbô (Fasquelle) impossible. [...] although Fasquelle is the only one to which I am recommended, it might be in my interest to go to Mercure because I need very, very full pages| to have only 650 in the first volume, and I believe that is the maximum number of pages that a volume can have? [...]
From the point of view of the work, what I would prefer, not being able to have a volume of 1300 pages, would be 2 volumes of 650. Immediately after 2 titles (which I would like less than a work in 2 volumes. (It would be 2 volumes also but in separate titles). So a multitude of volumes (one for each 300 pages) is what I would like the least, but may be what will be imposed on me. In that case, shouldn't I demand that each volume be published at most 3 months after the previous one? I would never dare to speak to you about all this if I did not know that your great love of literature goes down willingly to the questions of book making...
Correspondence, t. XI, p. 117.
L.A.S. "Marcel Proust", [April or May 1912], to Jean-Louis VAudoyer| 7 pages in8.
Long and interesting letter about Vaudoyer's poems and the publication of À la recherche du temps perdu.
Vaudoyer sent him his collection Hommage à Théophile Gautier and Proust found these verses delicious: "Gautier's somnolence and the inspiration that the Muses of decoration pour into him may be the thing that seemed to me of the rarest quality. However, the Café de Venise is quite remarkable too, and as for the little poem on the Voyage en Espagne, that form which is so essentially of that time and which gives the taste something equivalent to a sour flavour by the perpetual impression that the lines do not rhyme (which one has so often with Musset), it is perhaps what I prefer"... He regrets, however, the absence of the Baron de Sigognac, the hero of Capitaine Fracasse, "the work of Gautier that I prefer". He then asks him for advice on the publication of À la recherche du temps perdu: "My novel (?) will consist of about two volumes of [650 crossed out] 700 pages each. Perhaps the second will only be 600, but I cannot stop the first at just half.
Do you think that a work in 2 volumes is executable by Fasquelle or others. Or should we put 2 titles. A general title and below I and a 1st title for the 1st volume, and another title for the second volume (like L'Orme du mail, l'Anneau d'Améthyste) or even five volumes of 300 pages one per part. Now, you who are so expert in beautiful printing, and without seeking beauty at all for this book, but the possibility that it be read without fatigue, is the clarity of the printing due to the fact that there are few letters in each line and few lines in each page?
Thus the Double Maîtresse (Mercure) is very easy to read, Salammbô (Fasquelle) impossible. [...] although Fasquelle is the only one to which I am recommended, it might be in my interest to go to Mercure because I need very, very full pages| to have only 650 in the first volume, and I believe that is the maximum number of pages that a volume can have? [...]
From the point of view of the work, what I would prefer, not being able to have a volume of 1300 pages, would be 2 volumes of 650. Immediately after 2 titles (which I would like less than a work in 2 volumes. (It would be 2 volumes also but in separate titles). So a multitude of volumes (one for each 300 pages) is what I would like the least, but may be what will be imposed on me. In that case, shouldn't I demand that each volume be published at most 3 months after the previous one? I would never dare to speak to you about all this if I did not know that your great love of literature goes down willingly to the questions of book making...
Correspondence, t. XI, p. 117.